Meeting Review (17th April, 2007)

The meeting was attended by 12 members and 5 guests.

It was heartening to see 2 old members making a comeback. Welcome Tiru and Parimala!

One of the guests, Rohijas, ATMB is a member of KL Advanced, UEM and Club Pidato. The other guests (non-toastmasters) were: Joanna and partner, Kasantra and Malini.

Toastmaster of the evening was CTM Ivan Fong.

The meeting started with a great welcoming address by the President, Lakhmichand, ATMB, followed by an uplifting invocation by Muhendaran, ATMS, related to the theme “service”.

Role players: Chandran, CTM - AH Counter, Parimala - Grammarian and Loke (our newest member) the Timer.

First-timer, Hooi Bien, did a very good job in the Table Topics, by giving topics related to the day’s theme, “service”. There were six speakers with 3 guests participating and guess what! Our guest Malini put our toastmasters to shame by being selected as the best table topics speaker! Table Topics evaluation was very well covered by Ranjit Singh, ARMB

Kudos to the first-timers, Hooi Bien and Loke.

We had a dash of humour presented by Lakhmichand. As usual his one joke was enough to evoke laughter.

After the break, there were 2 assignment speeches. First speaker, Sham Sunder, delivered a very emphatic speech entitled “Stand up and be counted”. He persuaded the audience to stand up for their rights in some of the current hot issues in the country. Second speaker, Rema Paul, ATMB, enlightened us on the subject of “misunderstandings” and we were humorously entertained. Sham Sunder was evaluated by Chandran, CTM, and Rema was evaluated by Rohijas, ATMB. Both evaluations were helpful and encouraging.

General evaluation was handled by Muhendaran, ATMS. As usual, he reminded us of some of our shortcomings that need to be corrected.

The guests gave very positive feedback regarding the meeting.

Congratulations and Welcome to Loke & Malini who signed up as members!

The President ended another very fruitful and enjoyable meeting by reminding us that we have to move on which is characteristic of Bangsar Toastmasters periodically. We will be leaving our ‘artistic’ venue for yet another new environment in our next meeting.

See you guys!

by Ivan Fong, CTM

Meeting Review (03rd April, 2007)

Attendees:

Loke (Guest)
Chandran
Hooi Bien
Ivan Fong
Lourdes
Lucky
Maureen Ong
Michele Ong
Muhendaran
Ranjit
Sham sunder
Shan

Our standards have always been high and I must say they are improving. For a start, I like to highlight that we had 6 table topics speakers, whereby we had Lucky (our president), first volunteer, followed by our ever willing table topics speaker Ranjit, and making it more exciting our only guest of the day, Loke, also took part (Loke was adjudged as the Beast Table Topics Speaker); others who took part are Chandran, myself and Hooi Bien. The topics chosen by Lourdes, DTM, revolved around the theme of the day. Lourdes utilized the theme of the day very well by incorporating it into the table topics.

We had the 3 good speeches for the day. Those who attended the meeting had the chance to hear Michele’s ice breaker, titled The Younger Twin. We heard an informative and educational speech from Sham Sunder titled Debt Recovery. Ranjit Singh, ATMB, did his Competent Leadership assignment on the role of the VPE in ensuring better club meetings and also on the roles / functions played by other members in the club in ensuring successful meetings. His speech also emphasized quality of certain white-washed evaluations and stressed on the importance of good evaluations.

Overall we had a very good meeting for the day. Members who have been missing should make a mammoth effort to attend next meeting which will surely be exciting as well.

by Shanmugam G, CTM

Area W1 Contests

Area W1 International Speech and Table Topics contests 2007 – 17^th March, 2007

It was indeed an awesome Sat afternoon at the MIA Resource Centre. Area W1 ISTT contests started and ended with great gusto, because of the contagious enthusiasm and support of the members of Area W1, kudos.

It was indeed a showcase of Area W1's best to our non-Toastmasters guests.

5 contestants each, for International Speech and Table Topics contests.

In a few short hours, we heard from -
Sham Sunder on "Joy of Sex"
Bill Sim shared "The Smile, the Powerful Curve"
Paul Tan shared "My Story"
Johnny Yong on "Chasing Daylights"
Renuga Rajoo on "Love your Vital Organ"

Powerful messages and I'm sure each and every one of us took home something of value... I know I did.

From this day forward, I'll always ask myself "what's my joy of sex?" and look to find bliss, not just happiness; always be kind, humble and smile, the everlasting smile. Love this quote..."We only live once, and if we get it right the first time, even the one time's good enough". And liver's the vital organ in our body. We should take care of our liver because if we ignore our health, it'd be the biggest disrespect to ourselves.

Fellowship, making new friends and rekindling of friendship during break time was good.

Our 5 Table Topics contestants, Lum Woon Foong, Choy Tuck Yee, Alex Kwok, Muhendaran, Liew Siew Yin attacked the topic with gumption. Indeed refreshing to hear the many opinions on one same topic, haha.

I'm proud to announce the results... (drum rolls please)

International Speech Contest
Champion - Renuga Rajoo (Great Eastern TMc)
1st runner up - Bill Sim (KL Advanced TMc)
2nd runner up - Johnny Yong (MIA TMc)

Table Topics Contest
Champion - Lum Woon Foong (KL Advanced TMc)
1st runner up - Liew Siew Yin (Money Mastery-KL TMc)
2nd runner up - Muhendaran Suppiah (Bangsar TMc)

Congratulations to all the winners and well done to all contestants, you all are winners just by participating.

by Chong Huey Yee, Area Governor W1